This Namibia guidebook is specifically aimed at self-drive travellers.

This guidebook is full of travel tips and information on how to prepare for an overland trip. It features detailed information about 15 travel regions, including the most popular regions like Etosha, Kaokoland, Damaraland and the Skeleton Coast.

Each region has a beautifully illustrated map that also shows the top tourist attractions of the region to make the most of your Namibia holiday.

This guidebook tells you what facilities and services you can expect to find in 72 towns or destinations. It does not only cover the main towns/cities like Windhoek and Swakopmund; it even tells you if you will be able to refuel, withdraw money or find accommodation in a small little village like Tsumkwe in Boesmanland.

It lists 899 camping and lodging places in Namibia with maps showing where they are located.

This guidebook also features a map of border posts, with opening times, and a map showing veterinary fences and the Foot-and-mouth disease infected area.

Namibia
Self-Drive Guide

This guide is specifically aimed at self-drive travellers. If you are a self-drive tourist, there are five things that you need to know when you are on the road:

Where to sleep.

Where to get fuel.

What to see and do.

Where to buy supplies.

Where to go in case of an emergency.

If you have the Tracks4Africa Self-Drive Guide as your travel companion, the answers to all these and many more questions will be at hand.

If you are a rookie to the business of driving yourself into Africa, this guide will also help you to prepare for your trip. Tracks4Africa has a big community of experienced travellers who love sharing their knowledge. Based on their experience this guide advises you on matters like planning your trip, navigation, preparing your vehicle, buying the right equipment for travelling into remote areas and staying in contact with the rest of the world when you are on the road.

Before you venture into Africa, you need to be aware of safety and precaution issues.You need to know the road conditions and how to manoeuvre difficult road conditions. Travelling anywhere into Africa poses some health risks that you need to be aware of. Getting through border posts could be a pain, especially if you are not well prepared with the right documents. Can you imagine the frustration of having your well matured steak confiscated at a veterinary fence check point? All the above issues are covered in detail in this guide.

Even the travellers who need to fly in from afar and rent a vehicle to drive around, are taken into consideration. There are many pitfalls to be aware of when you rent a vehicle. These pitfalls are discussed and some rental companies are listed.

If you are well prepared and well informed, you can really enjoy the unspoilt beauty of Africa! The Tracks4Africa travel community has shared with you the places and attractions that they really love to visit time and time again.

Namibia travel regions:

Boesmanland

Damaraland

Erongo

Etosha

Gobabis

Kaokoland

Kavango

Namib-Naukluft

North Namibia

Ovamboland

Skeleton Coast

South Namibia

Sperrgebiet

Zambezi (Caprivi)

Featured under these travel regions are 72 towns or destinations (some are National Parks or Game Reserves). Each town or destination has a general description giving you some background on the town as well as a traveller description. A street and/or district map of the town shows you where exactly each camping and lodging listing which is linked to that town or destination, is situated.

For each of these towns or destinations a wealth of information was researched to answer the kind of questions that a self-drive traveller would ask. Through easy-to-read icons you will know if you will be able to refuel, have some repairs done, get medical attention, buy supplies, draw money, have your laundry done and if there is cellphone reception.

The Namibia Self-Drive Guide lists 899 camping and lodging places to stay. Each of these listings indicates contact details, rates, facilities and activities offered. Also, the nearest town with direction, distance and travel time from it, is given.

On top of all this the T4A community has lavished you with valuable tips on each and every aspect covered in the guide. As they are seasoned travellers, these are the kind of tips that can really make a huge difference to the success and enjoyment of your trip.

The table of distance does not only feature distances between towns, but also travel times. Reliable travel times are a unique feature for which Tracks4Africa is well known and is essential information when travelling in Africa. A second table of distance and travel times is dedicated to Kaokoland.

Book Reviews

Tracks4Africa is the best Guide in the world!!! Only the best! All our guests finds us easy the moment they enter our little village.Thank you for your wonderful support!!Haus Estnic Bed & Breakfast1417 Omatako Street,Henties BayNamibia

Annetjie Beukes (Anna)

We had our first Namibian holiday beginning September. I ordered the Namibia Self-Drive Guide book a couple of months prior, and it played a major role in our planning. Well laid out, organised in the various areas of that vast country, with great detail about most towns: What is there, what isn’t, where to find it. Fuel, accommodation, shops (big or small), with pointers about the level of sophistication one can expect in each (eg big chain grocery shops or basics only, last fuel before Etosha, etc. Also a bit of history and lovely colour photos. Was a great aid for trip planning, and was a constant companion in the vehicle.

Well done on an awesome product!

Willem de Waal

This book is fantastic. From my point of view it puts Lonely Planet and Bradt guides to the bottom of the list.

Margaret Hingsley, UK

Congratulations to the well composed Self-Drive-Guide of Namibia, I love it!

Jurgen Hontsch

This book is a masterpiece! It must have been a mammoth task to produce it. Apart from Garmin, the book deserves the tagline “you’d be lost without it”.

This Botswana guidebook is specifically aimed at self-drive travellers.

This guidebook is full of travel tips and information on how to prepare for an overland trip. It features detailed information about nine travel regions, including the most popular regions like the Central Kalahari, Kgalagadi and Okavango/Moremi.

Each region has a beautifully illustrated map that also shows the top tourist attractions of the region to make the best of your Botswana holiday.

This guidebook tells you what facilities and services you can expect to find in 42 towns or destinations. It does not only cover the main towns/cities like Gaborone and Maun; it even tells you if you will be able to refuel, withdraw money or find accommodation at small villages like the Martin’s Drift border post.

It lists 308 camping and lodging places in Botswana with maps showing where they are located.

This guidebook also features a map of border posts, with opening times, and a map showing veterinary fences and the Foot-and-mouth disease infected area.

The Tracks4Africa Namibia paper map is designed to be used in conjunction with the T4A GPS Map of Namibia. It is the largest available Namibia map at 1:1,000,000 scale, offering you the perfect trip planning tool for your next Namibian holiday.

This T4A paper map series are probably the first comprehensive country maps in the world, offering travel time information for the entire road network, be it on tar, gravel or sand!

Namibia Paper Map Fourth Edition

Key features:

Large 1:1,000,000 scale

Travel times and distances included on the map

What you see on the paper map is exactly what you get on T4A GPS Maps

Comprehensive set of roads and tracks in nature reserves

Detailed information on camp sites and attractions

Border crossings indicated with opening and closing times

Visit www.tracks4africa.com for detail on places of interest

Kaokoland in great detail with all off road tracks shown

Detailed maps for Swakopmund and Windhoek

Each town is shown with up to date tourist services information

Shaded relief to accentuate mountains and other topographical features

The roads, tracks, places of interest as well as the distance data and travel time estimates on the map reflect the collective travel experience of the Tracks4Africa community of travellers over the past 10 years, with every single road being GPS recorded and verified by this community.

No need to transfer GPS coordinates from the map to your GPS as everything you see on the map is contained in our T4A GPS Maps. Our maps offer the most comprehensive coverage of tourist destinations in Namibia. Use T4A GPS Maps to navigate you to all the destinations you see on this country map.

Tracks4africa produces quality GPS maps for self-drive tourists in Africa. T4A GPS maps provide detailed coverage to tourists across Southern and Eastern Africa. Lots of information is included on places such as national parks, popular rendezvous spots and places off the beaten track.

Africa Map SD Card

T4A GPS Maps are preloaded onto an SD card for ease of use. Included in this package you will find:

Install files for PC and Mac users are also included on the SD card. If your GPS does not use an SD card, simply install the maps onto your computer and transfer to your GPS. You will need Mapsource or BaseCamp from Garmin to do this.

T4A Africa Guide is preloaded and ready to use on compatible devices. This product contains contact details, rates, activities, facilities and photos for selected points on our maps.

T4A Road Warnings are preloaded and ready to use on compatible devices.

Prerequisites: This map is compatible with Garmin map capable GPS units only. You require a copy of Mapsource or BaseCamp to view this map on your computer and to perform route planning. T4A Road Warnings are Custom POI Alerts for compatible units only.